Crisis Services.

Weekday Resources

If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, services at the Counseling Center are available to help. Appointments for personal counseling can be made at the Center located at 301 Peabody Hall during office hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Students presenting in emergency circumstances during office hours will be seen by Center staff to provide a timely response and assistance. Please call (352) 392-1575 for additional information on Center services.

Evening and Weekend Resources

For emergencies occurring in the evening or on the weekend, crisis counseling services are available through the Alachua County Crisis Center by calling 264-6789. Students may also call the clinician on-call at Student Mental Health for phone callback and consultation at (352) 392-1171.

For more information on how to help a friend or learn more about coping with a variety of crisis concerns, please click here to see the Self-Help section of our web site.

Center Crisis Services

The Counseling Center provides a broad range of educational and direct crisis intervention services to the campus community. Students who present at the Center on an emergency basis receive crisis intervention help from the staff counselors. These intervention services may include the initiation of ongoing counseling and/or referral to additional university and community resources. The Center counselors also provide consultation to faculty and staff working in crisis situations where student well being in a classroom or other university setting is of concern.

The Center's brochure series on self-help topics includes publications focused on assisting students, faculty and staff in understanding and coping with a variety of issues associated with crisis and traumatic experiences. Listed below are several publications which address topics related to crisis.

Click on the publication title link to access its information.

Silent Witness – Anonymous reporting to the UF Police Department [UFPD]

If you are witness to disturbing or disruptive behavior and concerned about your welfare or others, you may use the UFPD anonymous reporting web-site, Silent Witness. The attached link will explain the purpose of the resource and provide a page for you to enter descriptive information. Your participation is anonymous with UFPD. All Information will be kept confidential in accordance with Florida State Statute (FSS) 119. Click here

Crisis Response Team

Counseling Center staff participates in the university's Crisis Response Team (CRT). The Crisis Response Team is a multi-disciplinary resource that responds to crises that impact members of the University community. The primary focus of the CRT is to meet the emergent needs of affected students in crisis. In the course of its interventions, however, the CRT also works to assist other students, families, faculty, and staff who may be impacted either directly or indirectly by the same incident. Several members of the Counseling Center faculty serve as emergency providers for the CRT and meet with the team at its monthly meetings. Additionally, other members of the Center faculty participated in the planning and implementation of training programs, caregiver debriefings, memorial services, and case consultation. The kinds of crises the CRT has responded to include notification in the death of family members, accidental death of students in auto crashes, suicide attempts, drug and alcohol overdose and hospitalization, completed suicides, death of faculty and associated impact on students and colleagues, threat of harm in an academic setting, pedestrian injuries from moving vehicles, violent and disruptive behavior in a residential setting, and sexual assault. Click here to learn more about the Crisis Response Team visit its web site.

University Counseling Resource Network

The UCRN is the counseling component of the comprehensive campus disaster management plan. It is composed of representatives from six campus academic and direct service agencies that, in the event of a campus wide disaster, are organized to provide skilled mental health services. The UCRN is called upon when the magnitude of an event exceeds the resources of the CRT. All members of Center's faculty and intern personnel are listed on the disaster contact list. Several of the Center's faculty has also participated in the planning, development, and implementation of system wide simulations designed to stress the UCRN and train its participants. As a contributing agency, the Center received a performance report based on its participation in the simulation that indicated all procedures were satisfactorily in place and functioning efficiently. The Associate Director of the Counseling Center serves as the coordinator of the counseling component for both the CRT and UCRN.

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